Solzhenitsyn - enduring in/out of Rus, on Crimea, something other than "neo-Communist hysterics"

[Zenaan Harkness]

Without doubt, Alexander Solzhenitsyn's legacy shall continue to grow
as one of the historical “carers of humanity” of all time.

The latest rise is of course thanks to Jordan Peterson's not
infrequent (and glowing) references to Solzhenitsyn's “Gulag
Archipelago” - though this was by no means his only foundational
written work.

The Untz Review floats this “preamble to Kholmogorov’s
yet-unpublished Solzhenitsynean magnum opus” to guage interest in the
possibility of The Untz Review doing a full 4-part series on
Solzhenitsyn - so if you find this worth the time to read, forward it
and we might see some more.

Continue to create your world fellow Souls,


** Alexander Solzhenitsyn - A Russian Prophet
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by Yegor Kholmogorov The Unz Review (881 views) on Sat, May 5, 2018
 Translator’s Foreword (Fluctuarius Argenteus) Almost by necessity,
 all previous Kholmogorov translations have been those of his older
 texts, with a “lag” between the original and the translation varying
 between several days and several months. What you see now is a much
 rarer treat. Kholmogorov has just finished a long and engrossing
 article on Alexander Solzhenitsyn, clocking in at 16,000 words, to
 be published by a Russian conservative outlet. Publishing a complete
 translation on The Unz Review would require the text to be split
 into three or four parts, and would be an exercise in futility if
 the figure of Solzhenitsyn doesn’t attract enough attention from the
 readership in the first place.





Go Vienna¦

** 'Comrade Jew' - Vienna Jewish Museum Highlights Jewish Role in
Soviet Communism
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by TNO Staff The New Observer (670 views) on Sat, May 5, 2018

 The Vienna Jewish Museum is currently holding a special exhibition
 highlighting the Jewish role in the creation of the Soviet Union and
 Communism, titled “Comrade Jew: We Only Wanted Paradise on Earth”
 (Genosse. Jude. Wir wollten nur das Paradies auf Erden) using a
 Soviet era cartoon of Karl Marx in a Moses pose holding tablets
 inscribed with “Das Kapital” and the “Communist Manifesto.”

 According to the Museum’s official website, the exhibition marks the
 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, and runs until May 1,
 2018.

 According to the write up which accompanies the official leaflet,
 the exhibition focusses on the fact that the Communists “attracted
 many Jews seeking a radical break after centuries of anti-Semitism
 in the Czarist empire,” and that the “utopian idea of an egalitarian
 society prompted them to support the new state.”

 In Austria, the museum adds in its write up, “antisemitism in the
 bourgeois parties in particular made the workers’ movement into a
 political option for Jews, and there were close links between
 Russian and Austrian Marxists.

 “The exhibition focuses on the failed dream of a better world. We
 look at the idea of an egalitarian society from an Austrian Jewish
 perspective and trace diplomatic, political, social, and cultural
 connections,” the exhibition introduction states.

 …The NYT journalist,  Jason Farago, feels obligated to tell his
 readers that “You don’t need me to tell you that this is still hot
 stuff, a hundred years on.
 …“Jews did make up a disproportionate percentage of leftist
 utopians.

 …“A copy of the Russian newspaper Pravda, edited by the exiled
 Trotsky (born Lev Davidovich Bronstein) from Vienna, bellows for
 workers of the world to unite.

 …“El Lissitzky, who earlier printed folksy lithographs of Passover
 stories, now painted geometric collisions such as ‘Beat the Whites
 with the Red Wedge’ (1920).”

 …The NYT journalist of course cannot complete the article without
 referring to the “danger” of Austria’s Freedom Party. As it says:

 “But downstairs, in the Jewish Museum’s permanent collection
 display, I saw something I have never before seen in a historical
 museum: a screenshot of a Facebook post, presented with the same
 care and regard as centuries’ worth of Judaica.

 “The post features an image of a fat, sweaty banker, with a hooked
 nose and stars on his cuff links, gorging on delicacies while a
 starving fellow diner, labeled “the people,” has only a bone to eat.

 “The man who posted it is Heinz-Christian Strache: the leader of
 Austria’s far-right Freedom Party and, since December, the country’s
 vice chancellor. A specter is haunting Europe today, and it is not
 the one these comrades foresaw.”